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 on the Purgatory which perforce thou muſt endure, when thou commeſt home.

Shee will make Clubs trumpe when thou haſt neuer a blacke Card in thy hand, for with her cruell tongue ſhee will ring thee ſuch a peale, that one would thinke the Diuell were come from Hell: beſides this, thou ſhalt haue a brended ſlut, like a Hell-hagge, with a paire of paps like a paire of dung-pots, ſhall bring in thy dinner, for thy widdow will not truſt thee with a wench that is handſome in thy houſe: now if that vpon iuſt occaſion thou throweſt the platters at thy Maides head, ſeeing thy meat brought in by ſuch a ſlut, and ſo ſluttiſhly dreſt; then will thy widdow take Pepper in the Noſe, and ſtampe and ſtare, and looke ſo ſowre, as if ſhee had come but euen then from eating of Crabs, ſaying; If thou hadſt not married with mee, thou wouldeſt haue beene glad of the worſt morſell that is here: then thou againe replying, ſayeſt; If I had not beene ſo mad, the Diuell himſelfe would not haue had thee; and then without cauſe thou blameſt her of old age, and of iealouſie, and for hiding her money, and for conueying away her goods which thou haſt bought with the diſpleaſure of thy friends, and diſcredit to thy ſelfe, in regard of her yeares; then againe, ſhee on the other ſide runneth out to her neighbours, and there ſhee thundreth out a thouſand iniuries that thou doeſt her; ſaying, my Corne he ſendeth to the Market, and my Cattell to the Fayre; and looke what he openly findeth, hee taketh by force, and what I hide ſecretly, he priuily ſtealeth it away, and playeth away all my money at Dice. Loe thus he conſumeth my ſubſtance, and yet hateth my perſon: no longer then I feede him with money, can I enioy his